The Many New Features & Improvements Of The Linux 4.5 Kernel
Other Hardware
- Many sound/ALSA improvements.
- Next-gen media controller support.
- A new Intel HID driver for supporting hotkeys on newer Intel laptops like the Dell XPS 13 9350.
- A new ASUS wireless radio control driver for supporting their newer laptops.
- Intel Telemetry support for Apollo Lake.
- Improved USB suspend support that USB devices can remain suspended if they were already suspended prior to a system suspend/resume, rather than waking back up automatically with the system resume.
- A new Intel VMD driver and other PCI/PCI-E changes.
Disk / Block / File-Systems
- New F2FS file-system features.
- Various MD subsystem updates prior to SUSE's Neil Brown stepping down as the longtime MD subsystem maintainer.
- A new free space cache system for Btrfs that was developed at Facebook.
- Project quota support for EXT4.
- Fsync/msync support for DAX.
- Various LightNVM, NVMe, and other storage updates.
Other Kernel Changes
- The usual assortment of work within the Linux kernel's staging area.
- Various security updates.
Well, I think that covers everything interesting I came across over the past two weeks of the Linux 4.5 merge window. If I missed anything else interesting, feel free to point it out via the forums. If you like all the work invested in Phoronix with our open-source/Linux news coverage and daily Linux hardware performance benchmarks, consider subscribing to Phoronix Premium by taking part in our special deal ending at the end of today that helps provide the resources for all of our continued testing and work.
Over on LinuxBenchmarking.com continue to be benchmarks of the latest Linux kernel Git code done on a daily basis from Fedora and Ubuntu. In the days/weeks ahead will be all of our other Linux 4.5 based testing in different articles on Phoronix. In case you missed it, this week I also posted Linux 3.5 through Linux 4.4 kernel benchmarks; I preserved that system in its same state so in the next few days will extend it to include Linux 4.5-rc1.
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